The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

So here it is at last, the distinguished thing!

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of 'art for …

Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert…